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Daily Adolescent Purposefulness, Daily Subjective Well-Being, and Individual Differences in Autistic Traits

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  • Kaylin Ratner

    (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Cornell University
    GripTape)

  • Qingyi Li

    (Cornell University)

  • Gaoxia Zhu

    (Cornell University
    National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University)

  • Melody Estevez

    (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

  • Anthony L. Burrow

    (Cornell University)

Abstract

Despite being a valued resource for adolescent health and development, the field maintains an incomplete view of how youths’ sense of purpose in life corresponds with their subjective well-being (SWB; i.e., greater life satisfaction and positive affect, lower negative affect). These blind spots are especially noticeable at the daily level, and the field further fails to consider how daily associations between purpose and SWB might vary across important individual differences. This study addresses these gaps in the literature using a daily diary approach to track adolescents (N = 204; Mage = 16.42 years; 70.1% female) across approximately 70 days of enrollment in GripTape, a U.S.-based out-of-school time program that supports engagement with personally meaningful activities. We found that on days teens felt more purposeful than usual, they tended to report greater SWB. Moreover, we failed to find evidence that subclinical autistic traits, an individual difference that corresponded with lower daily SWB ratings, moderated the observed daily benefits of feeling more purposeful than usual. With one of the longest consecutive studies of youth well-being to date, our work shows that day-to-day fluctuations in purpose are a useful addition to the adolescent SWB landscape. Following this necessary observational groundwork, future research may invest in creating and testing purpose opportunities for a more inclusive range of youth.

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  • Kaylin Ratner & Qingyi Li & Gaoxia Zhu & Melody Estevez & Anthony L. Burrow, 2023. "Daily Adolescent Purposefulness, Daily Subjective Well-Being, and Individual Differences in Autistic Traits," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 967-989, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jhappi:v:24:y:2023:i:3:d:10.1007_s10902-023-00625-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10902-023-00625-7
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